The criticism is slightly different from person to person, but it usually goes along these lines: “It’s just visualization for the sake of visualization”, “It’s just eye-candy”, “They all look the same”. When Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas wrote about Vernacular Visualization, in their excellent article on the July-August 2008 edition of interactions magazine, they observed how the last couple of years have witnessed the tipping point of a field that used to be locked away in its academic vault, far from the public eye.
Info design. InfoGraphics (Visual Maps)
Data visualization 2. Data & Visualisation. Analyse et visualisation de données. Data visualisation. Data/Information. The art of data visualization. DataViz. Data Visualization. Data journalism. Visual Information. Data visualization. Data Art. Visual Thinking. Browsing the web of data. Data Visualization.